Exhibition

Explorations in Process

26 Nov 2019 – 28 Dec 2019

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10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
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10:00 – 18:00
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10:00 – 18:00
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A four-person group exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation, and works on paper. All of the artworks on view utilize process in four artistic styles. Gallery artists include Will Insley, Nobuho Nagasawa, Alan Steele, and Roger Welch.

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Westwood Gallery NYC is pleased to present Explorations in Process, a group show exhibiting the work of four gallery artists whose conceptual themes pervade paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation, and works on paper. The artworks on view utilize process in four artistic styles including: conceptualism, installation art, geometric abstraction, and narrative art.

On view is an installation of 1970s wall fragment paintings by Will Insley which are created with more concern for form than color. Instead of utilizing canvas, Insley constructed his paintings with architectural materials to further accentuate their fragmentary subdivision from the grid. The paintings are exhibited together with two works on paper from his prior ‘Slip Space’ series representing linear developments documented in Insley’s lifelong art project of ONECITY.

Nobuho Nagasawa’s Umi no Utsuwa (Voyage through the Void) (2013), first presented at the Setouchi Triennial in Shodoshima, Japan, is a conceptual installation where the visitor lies in an optical fiber boat which pulses in rhythm with the users body movements and the ebb and flow of the Setouchi Island Sea. For this exhibition, her maquette representing the installation will be exhibited as a non-site vis-à-vis the installation in Shodoshima, along with two conceptual charcoal drawings and video documentation of the installation.

Three painted constructions by Alan Steele from three separate periods of his artistic career will also be on view. Following in the footsteps of minimalism, conceptualism, and the shaped painting movement, Steele formulates precise fragments suggesting the abstraction of a greater structure. The imagination of the whole is simultaneous with its ruin and removal.

The artworks by Roger Welch are part of his ‘Memory Map’ performances where he pioneered the application of conceptual thought to the Narrative Art movement at the John Gibson Gallery. For this exhibition, Welch will bring back his 16-foot diptych, Ruth Elliot Memory Map (1973), created on the first of four occasions of his ‘Memory Map’ performances. The diptych will be available for acquisition for the first time since being deaccessioned from the collection of art dealer Holly Solomon. The work will be exhibited alongside video documentation of Welch’s 1973 performance.

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Will Insley (1929-2011) was an American, abstract and conceptual artist born in Indiana, graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Architecture, and thereafter lived and worked in New York City. Insley challenged the accepted formal limits of art in the creation of his 50-year-long art project, ONECITY, focusing on diagrammatic paintings, drawings, photomontages, and sculpture.

Nobuho Nagasawa is a Japanese artist, raised in Europe and Japan, and living and working in New York City. Using time, process, and community participation, she creates dynamic installations highlighting the intersection of art, science, technology, sound, and synesthesia.

Alan Steele is an American geometric, abstract artist, raised in Venezuela and Brazil, and living and working in New York City. His work focuses on fragmentary objects immersed in understandings of tradition, culture, and geography to ascertain parts of a whole.

Roger Welch is an American, conceptual artist, living and working in New York City. Welch, along with John Baldessari, William Wegman, and Bill Beckley, is one of the pioneers of the Narrative Art movement. His work explores time, space, and memory in multi-media installation and video art.

CuratorsToggle

James Cavello

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Alan Steele

Roger Welch

Nobuho Nagasawa

Will Insley

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